Chapter 184: Fish-Man Conspiracy

Chapter 184: Fish-Man Conspiracy



Several months later, Fish-Man Island.

"Hah hah hah... Did we lose them, Slenk?" Borke said, trying to catch his breath.

"I don't know, Borke. There are waterways everywhere here, you know how fast they are in the water." Slenk answered, his eyes darting around in search of their pursuers.

Not finding the ones that were chasing them, they carefully moved as quietly as they could further into the alleyway they had ducked into.

"Are we close?" Borke asked.

"Yeah, this is a shortcut. I've used it a few times already." Slenk said, hastening his footsteps.

*Crash!*

A hulking figure dropped down from the adjacent building's rooftop and blocked their path. Slenk and Borke turned to run, but several more figures blocked that way as well.

So they tried going up, bouncing off the walls to reach the rooftops. Only to be struck back down from yet more awaiting ambushers.

"Look at the scared little humans trying to run away. You won't slip away this time, though. We've prepared for you this time, we knew you'd come this way again. Dosun!" The hulking figure said.

He was a Hammerhead Shark Fish-Man that stood over four meters tall and had long, pink hair. In his right hand he held a massive hammer over his shoulder.

"What the hell is your problem?! You've attacked us several times now and we've never done anything to you!" Slenk complained, seeing there was no escape.

"Never done anything to us? You don't have to do anything to us. Your presence here is enough offense. Humans don't belong here. Dosun!" The hammerhead said. The other fish- men agreed loudly and wholeheartedly.

"We're not bad humans! We even stopped several mermaid kidnapping attempts!" Borke defended himself.

"We don't care about that. You're human and you've invaded our home. That's enough! Dosun!" The hammerhead insisted.

No more words were exchanged. The hammerhead and his fish-man goons charged at Slenk and Borke who drew their swords.

Slenk and Borke had made sure not to seriously harm any of the fish-men who previously attacked them. It would have been a bad look and they had the strength to avoid it. Now, however, they didn't see how they would get out of this without bloodshed, and so they fought.

The fight was short, but that didn't make it any less violent. Rather, it was all the more bloody because of it.

The half dozen fish-men on the ground were swiftly cut down, with the exception of the hammerhead fish-man.

They hadn't anticipated this level of ferocity from these two humans, as they hadn't taken any casualties from their previous encounters. A fatal mistake resulting from their arrogant misunderstanding of their mercy.

Dosun entered the bar soon after with what remained of his goons.

"Dosun! You're back, tell me how you dealt with those two humans!" The great white shark fish-man said in a jolly mood, standing up to greet him.

"Um, well, that's the thing, Hody... they were stronger than we thought they were. We lost six men before the royal guard intervened, but my guys have spread some rumors to make everyone believe they were at fault. Dosun..." Dosun said.

"Oh, I see!" Hody said understandingly.

*BOOM*

Dosun felt a crushing pressure on his chest and before he understood what happened, he was floating outside the bar with what's left of the wall Hody punched him through.

"Don't come back until they're dead. Nobody is allowed to help him, you get me?" Hody

spoke darkly.

"Yes, Boss!" The fish-men answered without hesitation, lest they be the next poor fool to

suffer his wrath.

The electric eel fish-man wasn't part of their group, so he paid no mind to it at all. So long as his goals here were not threatened, then he wouldn't interfere in Hody's affairs.

...

The time for the Straw Hat pirates to gather was soon to arrive.

Cherry and Robin decided it would be best to pick up Zoro on the way as he had a tendency to

get lost. There was no telling where the fool would wander off to without a chaperone. Maybe he'd stumble upon the final island and find the One Piece by pure accident, and not even realize

where he was before wandering off again.

Cherry wasn't really looking forward to meeting Hawkeye again, that deadbeat. Unfortunately, Robin used one of her favors to make her do a father-daughter activity with him for her own sick and twisted amusement.

"I wonder how much stronger Zoro is now. Would Hawkeye teach him seriously knowing that Zoro is after his head?" Robin wondered aloud.

"That guy only thinks about swords all day, every day. So of course he would." Perona added

her two cents.

"We'll find out soon enough." Cherry said non-committedly.